What winter does to your motorcycle…
What does riding your motorcycle in winter do? Well if like me you don’t have a garage or a hose, this:
(click the image for a full whacker)
Unless you are intimate with a GSR’s engine casing, the black shiny bit should sit up against the lip of that bolt you see there. But the road salt has eaten away at it so much, that you can actually see the shaft of the bolt. Now bear in mind, this is about 2 weeks worth of salt sitting on the bolt areas, and this is the damage.
Its pretty crazy to think that 2 weeks worth of shit they put on the road can do this sort of damage but there you go. This is the second casing on this side of the bike, I’ve had 2 on the other as well.
I guess I should have known it would happen but, not this quickly.
Anyway, I thought I would share what the consequences are of leaving salt on your bike. I think I will have to replace these casings and get busy with the FS365 from Scottoiler.
Bums.
Just goes to show how crappy the materials are that Suzuki use on their lower end bikes.
Put some copper plating on there, should do the trick! (or if you haven’t got zinc plates, use gold….)
Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 22:01
Bloody Hell! That sure looks a bit of a mess down there. These ‘bargain’ Suzuki’s must be made of some rough alloy. A friend at work has had similar deterioration problems with his Suzi 800cc Cruiser; Said he would never buy one again – probably more so after his engine suffered a catastrophic failure during a trip to Spain …. and only 1 day out of warranty … Doh!
Monday, May 17, 2010 at 17:28
Gosh, I’ll better get somewhere to store mine next winter.
Friday, June 4, 2010 at 02:47